Byzantine Finance and Keyrock want to offer the returns of onchain credits to companies and family offices

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The French platform Byzantine Finance and the company Keyrock, based in Brussels, announced on October 29, 2026 a partnership around onchain credit intended for institutional players. The agreement is part of Byzantine Prime, the offering dedicated to corporate treasuries and family offices (which manage the assets of wealthy families).

Keyrock acts as an independent expert responsible for selecting and evaluating the assets integrated into Byzantine Prime's vaults, based on models and criteria defined jointly with the French company. For its part, Byzantine provides the non-custodial infrastructure that allows clients to access strategies while maintaining control of their funds.

This distribution of roles clearly separates three functions that are sometimes confused in decentralized finance: asset evaluation, technical infrastructure and fund holding. A breakdown designed to reassure corporate treasurers and family offices, accustomed to strict governance standards.

On the digital assets side, Byzantine Prime operates exclusively in stablecoins. Funds deposited in euros or dollars by its customers are converted into EURC or USDC, the two stablecoins issued by Circle. There is no direct exposure to Bitcoin (BTC) or Ethereum (ETH) for example, which therefore rather targets a clientele who does not wish to be exposed to the volatility of cryptocurrencies, excluding stablecoins.

According to its online documentation, Byzantine charges a 10% performance fee on the returns obtained by its clients, but without management, entry or exit fees. Businesses and family offices can expect annual rates of up to 5% on EURC and up to 7% on USDC.

Byzantine now boasts more than 600 users across 10 countries, and its infrastructure has processed more than €23 million in transactions to date. Volumes that are still modest, but representative of an underlying trend, because institutional investors want to grow their dormant cash surpluses (in dollars or euros) with returns via USDC and EURC from the vaults offered by Byzantine, like what DeFi has been offering to individuals for years.

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